China correspondent for the New Yorker speaks at U.S.-Asia Law Institute

China correspondent for The New Yorker speaks at U.S.-Asia Law Institute

Evan Osnos, the Beijing-based correspondent who writes The New Yorker’s “Letter from China” dispatches, spoke at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) at NYU Law on February 28. Osnos, who served as the Chicago Tribune’s Beijing bureau chief before he joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, has reported on Chinese hacking, corruption, clean energy, and the influx of African merchants.

During his visit to the law school, Osnos discussed a range of China-related topics with USALI executive director Ira Belkin ’82 and took questions from students and researchers. Subjects he spoke about included:

• His path in journalism • The multitude of subcultures in China • Censorship in the Chinese media • Growing concern among the Chinese middle class over pollution • Xi Jinping, the country’s next president, and the prospect of legal reform • The effect of access to the Internet and social media on the flow of news in China